If it turns out that videogames make only 1% of gamers more violent (especially lonely, bullied, socially dysfunctional ones), and end up being a decisively contributing factor in 50% of school shootings, should they be regulated?
This is a single study in the UK, over 1004 individuals, and it did not contain a single shooter. It demonstrated that there was no linear response between game exposure and aggression. But imho it cannot show that actual shooters were not triggered by games.
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Btw, the Werther effect for increase of suicides as a result of media exposure is considered real. For the same reason, shootings tend not to be reported in detail any more. Would it be a stretch to think that video game massacre exposure can have a similar effect?
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